EP53: Las Vegas Concours; Risotto with Pagani and Hagerty

Jon Summers is the Motoring Historian. He was a company car thrashing technology sales rep that turned into a fairly inept sports bike rider. On his show he gets together with various co-hosts to talk about new and old cars, driving, motorbikes, motor racing, motoring travel.

• Thanks to the Wynn for organizing
• Lando Norris, was he named after a character in Star Wars?
• Motorfest Las Vegas; the concours, SEMA and the F1 Grand Prix are walkable
• The hotel room near makes the show convenient even if your significant other is a significant impediment usually
• An overview of cars at the show; many showfields
• Hillsborough Concours
• The Vegas crowd: “Most people here have never been to a judged car show before”
• Guentherwerks
• The Pagani at the show
• The Matchbox Ford 3 Litre
• The real Ford 3 Litre
• The Bugatti field
• Concours, Vegas style
• The Lord Howe Mercedes S
• Pontoon storage/step
• The love for rhe Schumi era Ferarri F1 cars
• Modern F1 cars opposite the Lord Howe Mercedes
• The trial by fire of the half million mile F250: San Francisco to Las Vegas via Yosemite
• The Mini in the hotel, disfigured by the wrong tail lights
• A pet peeve: non date correct coloured plates on British cars
• A Vegas Party, and loud jackets
• The only racing Lamborghini 400GT
• Risotto with McKeel Hagerty and Horacio Pagani
• The value of a tour guide
• Ed Bolian and Don Meguire, fellow, more successful car storytellers
• Vinwiki; my lunch stolen? Or a recognition of the special awesomeness of car stories
• The Bolian schtick of talking about the cars he owns to drive up their value

[00:00:00] John Summers is the motoring historian. He was a company car thrashing technology sales rep that turned into a fairly inept sports bike rider hailing from California. He collects cars and bikes built with plenty of cheap and fast and not much reliable. On his show, he gets together with various co-hosts to talk about new and old cars driving motorbikes, motor racing, and motoring travel.

Good day. Good morning, good afternoon. It is John Summers, the motoring historian, the last Vegas Concord Ance. I know Elegance and Las Vegas perhaps oxymoronic, but. Cars in Vegas. Oh, that really works, doesn’t it? Cars in Vegas. The whole fact that the collector car [00:01:00] world started in, in my mind, sure. On the East coast with the Hershey people, but on the west coast out here, certainly north, it’s the casino magnet.

Bill Harra. That when I was at the Blackhawk, so many of ha of, of the Blackhawk cars had at one point been in, in the Hara collection and he, he really was a colossus in, in the hobby. And, and therefore it’s applicable, right? That a big casino town has a car show. And let’s be clear, right, the Las Vegas Concord, I hadn’t realized this when I rocked up there, but you know, having driven my half million mile.

F two 50 diesel powerstroke pickup truck down the main strait of the Las Vegas Grand Prix with the barriers up and so on. Thinking, you know, wow, I too might be pastry or Norris, or. Lando, did they name him after Lando [00:02:00] Calvion in Star Wars? That is the question, isn’t it? I think they did. He’s aged about right, isn’t he?

Were his parents Star Wars people? Is he named after a character in Star Wars? Is that cool or is that idiotic?

The event is organized by the win. They comped me and, and the other people who came and, and were docent volunteers, they, they comped us rooms. I really wanna thank them for that because it’s really was an, an awesome event. And you know, I mentioned that the Grand Prix took place in a few weeks. I hadn’t realized that in between the Concor and the Grand Prix is sema.

So there really is a sort of motor fest at Las Vegas, and it’s not one of these, like where even at Monterey, you know, pebble Beach, you need a car to get around, everything’s like distributed, but you could have just stayed in your hotel room for. Two [00:03:00] weeks and done all three events. Like everything is right there.

And that really is the theme of Vegas actually as, as a show because the fact that your room is, you know, or be it a Vegas walk away, so you know, a five or 10 minute walk. But nonetheless it is a walk away from the show field, show fields. I should say, and let’s talk about that in just a moment, but the fact that the show fields are walkable, that there’s plenty of car parking, there’s many, many hotels rooms within walking distance of the show field, it actually makes Vegas absolutely ideal to host a concore.

It’s as simple as even if you are not somebody who has a collector car, it’s not a huge jump of imagination to feel like or to have had that experience where you’re gonna take the car to [00:04:00] the show, but your significant other’s not that interested and the dog or the kid or whatever’s just a lot of extra schlep and you’re like, you know what?

I’m just not gonna bother going. Because I don’t wanna leave the significant other at home with a dog or kid situation. I just, I’m just, you know, it’s, this is a pleasure event. I’m just not gonna go. If you can have a hotel room nearby, how much more accessible is it with the whole dog? A kid, significant other who wants to wear shoes that are ridiculous, but that means she can’t walk pro.

You know, all of that stuff. Right. These are issues which I would say most car guys collect. I don’t wanna generalize, there’s plenty of women car guys, but you know, probably their significant others aren’t that interested in in cars or might not be that interested in cars. The point is, right, that if the casino’s right there, if there’s all the entertainment of Vegas right there, if you could just go back to your.

Room and [00:05:00] like it’s easy to take a pee and take your shoes off and all of that, right? It’s absolutely huge and it makes the event really completely different event from any other one that, that I’ve been to. So, as I say, it, uh, wins. Organize the, the event I, I stayed at the Wynn Hotel. They did comp me. I had to pay the room charge and the discharge and the, that charge and, and I really appreciate them doing it.

And they did a superlative job in terms of, of organization. So I said show fields, didn’t I? Yeah. Show fields. There is an area which I did my tours around, which resembles Pebble Beach. Might almost be Pebble Beach in some highlights. You know, there was, uh, pebble Beach winning Gaia this year. There was some nice American cars, there was some nice pre-war cars.

There was some nice sort of Europe, you know, Maza, [00:06:00] ferragine, Gini types. You know, there there was, there was that kind of stuff around. There was some nice jaguars knocking round. So you had the same kind of experience. I would say that you have, not so much at Pebble Beach, but certainly the event that I’m personally involved in, that I’m chief docent of now, surprisingly and absurdly, and I’ve simply a.

There’s a function of poor Wayne Craig passing, but the Hillsborough event is a fairly small number of cars, and it’s a local event, but it draws a very high caliber of car. And the Vegas event was almost like that. There weren’t a lot of cars, but. In the PWA beachy part, there were, uh, some really high quality, nice ones, much, much better cars than you would ever see at, uh, local cars and coffee.

With the rise of vste, I feel like it, it’s shown that there is room [00:07:00] for more events than the traditional Pebble Beach and Abil Ryland. I feel like there is room for, uh, more than that. I feel like what Vegas has done really effectively is look at the supercar crowd and say, you know, what can we do to elevate.

The supercar, hypercar crowd, people’s experience. And of course, if you’ve just spent a million dollars on a Ferrari and then you see there’s another Ferrari that’s worth 35 million or 50 million, or maybe even more than that, you’re naturally peak to understand why that car might be worth more. And what the Vegas event is set up to do is to provide that kind of tutorial.

And certainly that was what I looked to facilitate. The people were Vegas, really Vegas. And I would say that one of the, the guys that I, I worked with who’s chief to [00:08:00] in uh, pebble now said to me, you know, a lot of the people that you do tours for, I bet you most of ’em have never been to a car show. Before, probably half of ’em never been to a car show.

And those that have, have not been to a kind of point judged pebble, beachy kind of car show, which as I say, the Pebble beach style show field was that it was points and, and judged and, and, and so on. And indeed, you know, he was absolutely right. My experience was the, the people who were coming round were people who, you know, who were in Vegas and who were interested in cars and were, were car people, but they definitely weren’t Pebble Beach kind kind of of people.

So, so there was a really cool kind of education going on. And of course, um, these. Kind of people are, I mean, one of the, one of my guests, uh, she had an eye patch that had a picture of an eye on it. So it was quite disconcerting talking with her because she had like sunglasses [00:09:00] on and the eye patch and the, yeah, husband, uh, lots of gold jewelry and yeah, just welcome to Las Vegas, just a very, you know, Las Vegas kind of feel.

So it was really fun doing that in terms of. The people and the cars, but I’ve just talked about the pebble, beachy kind of show field right at the foot of the wind, like right off the strip. They’ve not just got this one field, they’ve got like three or four. One field was just Lamborghinis. It was like you’d sort of, you know, you crusted a rise and then there was a field of Lamborghinis.

And I don’t mean like, you know, a dozen, oh, I wanna over exaggerate. Probably 50 cars. You know, I would be surprised if it was less than 50 cars. Certainly comfortably in excess of two dozen cars. And of course what that allay builds you to do if you are a enthusiast is [00:10:00] compare and contrast and, and that’s unique and and valuable.

Now to have that would’ve been awesome, but to then have two or perhaps three more fields. That have pans and bugattis and, and then a sort of manufacturer kind of area, you know, Gunter works and over Finch and you know, those kind of like braas, you know, for whatever brand kind of guys don’t wanna knock that if that’s your thing.

Guess I’d love to have that much money to be able to, you know, spun that much on a special version of a, of another car. Why am I doubtful? I mean, I had a student who worked at Gun to Works, I’d never even heard of them before. And, you know, the front end treatment is my, my, isn’t it? And I happen not to like what the going to works look for the front end of Porsches, but.

You know, whatever, each of their own [00:11:00] happy, the, you know. But this is the kind of people who were at the, the Vegas show. I think Paani launched a new car or something like that. I might you include some pictures of it. ’cause there was one car that he seemed to be on stage talking about at one point when I was coming to and from the show field after one of my tours and the car was like in the reception of the hotel, faintly reminiscent of one of the Ford.

Lamar cars, I might interrupt myself and record a little bit, but I, I wanna say, is it the J car or was it the Ford three liter? There was a matchbox model of it. That’s when I knew about the car. I don’t think it was that successful, but you know, by that time, matchbox had committed to doing the model. So sort of, you know, the car through the model, even though the real car didn’t race anywhere near as.

Successful. The GT 40, I can’t remember the exact, but this is what that PA looks like with a kind of fishy high tail, like [00:12:00] swoopy high tail. Yeah. Editor. John’s here to tell you it’s the four three liter. Um, apparently it was built by Alan Mann and there is a matchbox model of it linked to the Matchbox model.

So a photograph of the actual car, which does look, uh, a bit fishy and I think does have proportions that are reminiscent of the pagani that I’ll, uh, I’ll add a picture. Quite appeal. Quite appealing, although obviously I’d rather have the real race car, wouldn’t you?

I was fundamentally blown away by the fact that, that there was so much stuff there. The Bugatti field. I mean, my God, there was some crazy statistic like 53. Bugatti Veron imported into the US and of those, like 50 of them or 33 imported into the us and of them, 30 of them were at the show. So that was pretty stu fine.

Really. I mean, I’m not a modern hypercar kind [00:13:00] of person. But the spectacle of that is a Stu Fine thing. And you know, as somebody who’s not looked closely at them before, it’s pretty awesome to be able to compare the different evolutions of, of Veron and then sheron and, you know, so, so this is quite an interesting thing, I I, I this modern.

Volkswagen design. I find it very iterative. It’s like in your mind, today’s Audis look the same as ones from 20 years ago, but they don’t, they’ve like tweaked and changed and evolved and, you know, they retained the brand values whilst modern. I, I do feel like that has gone on with Bugatti as well. And it, it’s awesome to see, but it’s also a bit Germanic and mechanical and not the way that I feel like, you know, it’s, it’s not the way Gandini.

Design the Diablo is a, it’s did you design the Diablo, but I mean the counteract, but you understand what I’m driving at. In that period, design was done. Great flair and passion. [00:14:00] It’s not the way SC Etti did the original Ferrari, GTO is it. So you know, I mean, call me. Old fashioned, right? The rustle and the paper signifies that I’m actually taking up my paper to, uh, talk through after 16 minutes of just absolute off the cuff drl.

So the first note that I had here was, this is concourse, but Vegas style. And I think I’ve conveyed that already. The judged lawn. Pebble winning car was the Mercedes, I’m not sure if it’s an SSK, but SS Mercedes, like twenties Mercedes. That was ordered new by Lord Howe, the sort of patron of British motorsport.

So my sort of tour piece was around the whole notion of, you know, the unelected representative who takes it upon himself to. Take on a cause in this case, motor sport and really drive that forward. And, and [00:15:00] Lord, how is, when you look at the political history of motoring in Britain, rarely for the first, like 50 or 60 years, rarely does he not, does he not sort of get a mention so.

I’ve gotta believe that when he bought this Mercedes, it was kind of a, a no thine enemy. I mean, he sat in the, the House of laws, which is the equivalent of the British Senate. But as I say, Lords aren’t voted. They just like inherit the titles so well. Some are, some aren’t. But you know, in that period, a lot of them.

You know, and in his case, he inherited the tightly, he didn’t do anything, you know, to become a Lord unique because it was bodied in Britain. Um, it has a very British kind of, of style to its super rakish. I put a photograph that I took of the. Pontoon, it’s kind of a step, it’s kind of a storage container on the side of the car.

It’s just a beautiful piece of art. But as I say, I really feel like it’s, uh, the case of no thine enemy, that [00:16:00] this was Lord how very much saying to Bentley and Rolls Royce, look, this is what the Germans can do. We need to be able to do better than this. And uh, you know, he was a keen racer. So, you know, you, you know, the car was exercised.

So more recently it’s, I think it’s owned by John Shirley. I’ll delete myself out if I’m wrong. Alright. I just leave myself in there to confuse posterity. The point is, he’s had a beautiful restoration on it and the fact that he’s ready to enter a car, that one Pebble, B Jack, the Las Vegas Concor, I mean, it just gave.

It’s a beautiful way to anchor your tour and of course most of the people walking past it don’t have a Scooby-Doo what it is and especially when it’s parked up opposite a row of modern Formula one cars. I mean, this is amusing actually. People will walk in straight past the how Mercedes and we’re gushing over the sort of Shum [00:17:00] me era, F three 10.

I think that’s the designation, but a sort of, you know. 20 ish, 15, 20 ish year old Ferrari Formula one car. And of course, nowadays they’re like, everyone’s like, Ooh, the V 10. What you’re struck by now is how bloody big the modern cars are next to it. It looks like a Formula Three car, basically in comparison to a modern Formula one car.

But look. Right. That was another thing that was bloody awesome about the show, is that they didn’t just have a few, they seemed to have like half the grid of modern Formula One cars and it’s really a, an an impressive kind of display. I mean, I guess easy, right? ’cause the Grand Prix coming up, I hadn’t really thought that through before, but really just the very juxtaposition of the pebble winner and.

Michael’s Formula One car and modern Formula one cars. I mean, that was what I felt was special about the Vegas event. So I said I drove over in the [00:18:00] F two 50 power stroke. I mean, it’s 1500 miles on a weekend. I mean his total trial by fire because like a halfway, I ran the thing out of gas not long after I bought it, and then had to purge the low gas line, the diesel lines and all of that.

So. Actually just within the last 24 hours. I’m recording this a long time After this road trip, months after the road trip. It’s like January now. When this event was sort of November or October or something of last year, it’s had some fueling problem now it’s not running right now. Bloody F two 50. Well, anyway, I, I ran out of gas, fixed that, and then was like, right, I just have to trial by fire this thing.

So I drove it to Vegas and back, and I drove by Mono Lake and that kind of way. I took like a, almost a like direct route. Drove across Yosemite. Really, really awesome drive. The truck only seems big. The city, right. When you’re in a, it’s, it’s a crew cab long bed and it only seems big [00:19:00] when you’re in the city.

Like when you’re just driving along. Normally it’s fine, but when you like get into Vegas and then have to park at one casino and it’s a massive hike and normally it’d be fine ’cause you travel light, but. Now you’re doing a concord, you’ve got like multiple pairs of nice shoes and you know, jackets and all of, of that bollocks.

So I, I had to leave the truck parked up, not miles away, but like a long way. I mean, it, I basically, I spent one, I wouldn’t say whole day, but I spent a good two or three hours just ’cause it was like a 20 minute walk from my room. To the truck and back and I couldn’t carry all the stuff in one go, so I was like hiking backwards and forwards.

So it was really Betty Salick, let me tell you. That was really annoying. And uh, but it’s my own stupid fault, right? For driving a giant truck. And it probably would’ve fitted in the other car parking. But, you know, you don’t want get it stuck, do you? I [00:20:00] mean, it’s like driving in past the barrier and then it getting stuck on the ramp.

You know, you just like. So the night before the Concor, we were invited to a party and the party was shortly after we’d done our pre-show field walk. And that’s usual when you do the pre-show field walk, not all the cars there. And in this case we did the pre-show field walk the night before. So it’s pretty cool as it broad arrow or RM or one of them were doing auctions there.

So whilst I was waiting to meet the others. Right there in the hotel, in the middle of the hotel was like a full on like Italian job spec. Old English white mini really looked good. Rarely have I lost it after a mini more, it was in exactly my specification, you know, mark one external hinges, Minna light wheels.

But then somebody had put big taillights on it and it just offended me. It just [00:21:00] offended me completely. I was like, Ew. Like. Get out of town. Like you’ve gotta do the small, delicate taillights, the outsides, the plexiglass, the details have to be right. I just wanna say British people, this business of fitting black and white plates, like when I say old fashioned, I mean like from the sixties, black plates with silver letters on them, on cars from the 1970s.

Like anything later than. A sort of J or K plate car that has to be a plastic number plate. If you’ve got an R or a V or a W red car, like a nine eighties escort XR three, that car needs to have a yellow number plate at the back. It’s just, it just does it

party the night before? I digress. I was on the show field, wasn’t I, you know, I was talking about pottering around the show field the night before, and I [00:22:00] almost didn’t go to the party. I wanted to like show my face and I, and I wanted to, you know, mingle a little bit. And so it, it made sense to, uh, to Potter down there.

Oh, the people like, oh wow. I had a number of really interesting small talkie conversations with people. And they were very vegasy kind of interactions. You know, it was fun, but I can’t remember a single thing they said or or anything about. And there’s one woman that I spoke to who was taller than me. I remember speaking to her for a little bit.

I was with a guy, pebble chief docent guy, and he’s an imposing looking guys like silver beard and silver hair and broad shoulder and tall. He had a gold jacket on. So, uh, this guy rocks up. He’s wearing this like green snake skin kind of jacket and I can’t remember what his role was, [00:23:00] but he has, he was basically like, you know, they compared notes on having loud jackets.

And then we got talking to the guy and he has this lovely, oh, in fact, I mean, I’ll, I’ll include a picture of the car. I’ve seen the car at Lahore as well. He has the. NY Lamborghini, I think it’s a three 50 or a 400 gt. It was actually used for any kind of motor sport, so it has like a semi kind of racing spec thing on it.

I wasn’t convinced by the car before. It was cool and all, but it, I wasn’t convinced by the actual motor sport history, the guy’s passion, overwrote, all of that. For me, the guy’s passion for Lamborghinis in general, overwrote, all that. And I, and I walked away thinking, I mean, Ken, like you do with Lamborghinis, like, well, maybe it’s not for me, but like, I’m really pleased that that stuff’s in the world and, and uh, you know, so, uh, so that was fun having like a bit of small talk with him, but I was still amused by [00:24:00] being amused.

By the loud jacket, people comparing notes with each other. Well, I thought I might posh over to one of the food stations and get some food, and I was like looking at it being like, fucking Alex Risotto. I hate risotto when none other than Il Haggerty asked me if I would please pass him some risotto.

Which I, I, Julie did, turning back to find that Horatio PA was leaning in to get some risotto himself as well. Didn’t persuade me that I wanted risotto. Still fucking hate Otto. It’s the Kiss’s death on cooking shows. By the way, if you’re watching a TV cooking show, if anybody’s like, I’m doing the risotto, like, no.

Right? No. Clearly there’s some like, you know, rhythm stirring stuff that you need to do that you can do in the kitchen normally, but on in tv, on TV land, it’s just not possible to do. It’s always the kiss of death. Mark my words. If you are watching a cooking TV show, I should. I could make money betting on that, couldn’t I?

That short [00:25:00] term betting thing.

So you tend to do the tours early in the day and, uh, I wouldn’t have said we were remotely overworked and the tour groups were small. I think I did two or three tours and, and so probably, and each group was maybe a couple of two people and one put. To, you know, a couple and a one person or something like that, you know, that was, the groups weren’t very big groups, so it’s great, right, because then it’s a conversation and, and you can really provide a value add for people.

I don’t feel like I need to broadcast to 50 people. I’d, I’d rather do like a one-to-one, and, and then people feel like they’ve got a real value add and, and maybe feel like they actually, you know, have learned something rather than have just looked and been like, well, that’s a nice one. I mean, I, I know how I’m like when I go to a museum.

I don’t wanna do an audio guide, but at the same time, I do like to leave with a bit more information than I had before. I happen to enjoy reading the plinths and stepping back and looking and reading. I get that other people learn in a [00:26:00] different kind of a way and and wanna learn different kind of way and, and that’s why I’ve always felt like doing tour guiding stuff was worthwhile to do.

You know, and with these people, obviously you get, if, if you’re coming from a place where you’ve never been to a judge car show before, there’s so much more that you can learn here in addition to just the car. So it was fun interacting with the people and doing that. And I was tired walking back to my room when, uh, I saw, uh, I, I’d already seen his red.

Sheron. If you know the world of automotive YouTubers, you will know the moment. Not Red Sheron. Red Veron. The moment I said Red Veron, I was, uh, I was talking about Ed Boian. Um, he was lurking right there on, on the lawn there. And I’m, I’m not one to go up and introduce myself to celebs or semi celebs or, or, or whatever, but you know, he was there with old Don McGuire, the McGuire’s car polish people.

And, uh. McGuire, I, I realized standing there looking at both of [00:27:00] ’em are like a head taller than me. So it’s a peculiar thing. But I realized standing there looking at them, that both of these people try and do the same thing that I do, which isn’t, but they just do it more successfully than me, which is they’ve made their passion for automobiles a living just because they’re earning a reasonably good living and it doesn’t stop ’em Continuing to tell stories and share the passion and encourage other people.

To be enthusiastic about motoring and old cars and just caring for the automotive and engineering cultural heritage of the 20th century or whatever you want, you know, all, all of the above. So, so I did a whole like. Gushing fanboy piece with him around, you know, thanks to what you do for the hobby. And then we walked through, uh, the hotel together ’cause he needed to look for reception.

And it was amusing because I think he thought that I had a lot to say to him. And maybe ’cause I’d jammed on a lot when I first met, but I didn’t really, [00:28:00] afterwards when I got back to my room, I was like, shit, I should have asked him this. Or I could have asked him that. Or I could have said, oh, bravo on, uh, that, or I did say to him.

Mentioned the, the class that I do, which is a, that I teach, which is a storytelling class, and I mentioned how with VIN Wiki, I felt like, you know, my initial thing was, God, this bastard stolen my lunch. But then upon reflection I was like, no. On the contrary, this is actually. Publicizing the form of pure automotive storytelling.

It’s saying there is something special about automotive stories. And it’s funny, I, I read a a, a Reddit that commented, uh, that everybody on Vin Wiki was like a, a law breaking arrogant asshole. Some of the guys that he has on there certainly years ago came across like that. Well, I think that’s even better, right?

There’s nothing more beautiful. It’s like the Jeffrey Chauser inviting somebody on and having them [00:29:00] condemn themselves out of their own mouth. Like how you let the fool tell a story to make himself look like a fool. You allow the coward to paint himself as a venal. Greedy coward. And, and some of the people that Ed Boian has had on Van Wiki, they do come across like that.

And of course, people, uh, are ambivalent about the whole nature of cannon balling, which is, you know, and it’s by being a cannonball record holder, that that’s how, um, you know, ed Boian came to the public eye in the first place, if you like, and was able to, to build this brand around. Buying the cheapest cars, the worst examples of exotic cars that he could possibly can.

And then by virtue of him having it and talking about it and repairing it, you then turn the bad story into a good story. And you write off the fact that the value’s bad. And you know, if you own, if you make enough song and dance about stick shift, Lamborghini mer largo’s, which you happen to own. [00:30:00] Sooner or later, ’cause there’s only like 30 or 50 or a hundred of them or whatever there is.

Sooner or later you are actually able to move values materially based upon the research and the stories and all of that stuff that you’re doing. So I should have said to him, you know, Bravo for showing me that shit. You know, ’cause uh, I may have been telling Carl stories longer than you, but I didn’t see a way to.

Sort of monetize it as effectively as as you did. I talked much more then than I actually did to him. I must have been knackered. Thank you. Drive through.

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Skip ahead if you must… Here’s the highlights from this episode you might be most interested in and their corresponding time stamps.

• 00:00 Las Vegas Car Culture
• 01:31 The Las Vegas Concours Experience
• 05:34 Show Fields and Car Highlights
• 09:12 Unique Cars and Personal Encounters
• 14:09 Reflections on the Event
• 17:58 The Drive to Vegas
• 20:08 Pre-Show Party and Social Interactions
• 26:20 Meeting Automotive Celebrities
• 30:34 Conclusion and Acknowledgements